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Hands-on review: Dell Venue 10 and Venue 10 Pro review

Hands-on review: Dell Venue 10 and Venue 10 Pro review

By Chuong Nguyen Dell is taking the success of the business-centric $700 (£437 or AU$800) Venue 11 Pro to the educational market in the form of the $299 (£197 or AU$390) Android-powered Dell Venue 10 and the $329 (£216 or AU$430) Windows-based Venue 10 Pro. Like the Venue 11 Pro, both Venue 10 tablets can…

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Hands-on review: Dell Venue 10 and Venue 10 Pro review

Hands-on review: Dell Venue 10 and Venue 10 Pro review

By Chuong Nguyen Dell is taking the success of the business-centric $700 (£437 or AU$800) Venue 11 Pro to the educational market in the form of the $299 (£197 or AU$390) Android-powered Dell Venue 10 and the $329 (£216 or AU$430) Windows-based Venue 10 Pro. Like the Venue 11 Pro, both Venue 10 tablets can…

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Hands-on review: Dell Latitude 11 review

Hands-on review: Dell Latitude 11 review

By Chuong Nguyen With the same purpose-built for education design, Dell is iterating on the success of the Latitude 13 for Education Series that debuted last year. The 2015 Latitude 11 model boasts the same durable design, affordable $299 (£194 or AU$386) entry price, and education-centric features as last year’s model, but in a smaller…

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Hands-on review: Dell Latitude 11 review

Hands-on review: Dell Latitude 11 review

By Chuong Nguyen With the same purpose-built for education design, Dell is iterating on the success of the Latitude 13 for Education Series that debuted last year. The 2015 Latitude 11 model boasts the same durable design, affordable $299 (£194 or AU$386) entry price, and education-centric features as last year’s model, but in a smaller…

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Review: Acer Aspire E15

Review: Acer Aspire E15

By Henry Casey Introduction The inherent give and take of choosing a new laptop, especially when constrained by a budget, is no fun. With the notebook market increasingly centering around the 13-inch mark, those who need or want a larger display are increasingly getting hung out to dry. With that in mind, the latest entry…

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Review: Acer Aspire E15

Review: Acer Aspire E15

By Henry Casey Introduction The inherent give and take of choosing a new laptop, especially when constrained by a budget, is no fun. With the notebook market increasingly centering around the 13-inch mark, those who need or want a larger display are increasingly getting hung out to dry. With that in mind, the latest entry…

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Liveblog: Xiaomi Explains Itself To Silicon Valley

Liveblog: Xiaomi Explains Itself To Silicon Valley

By Kyle Russell I’m at the W Hotel in San Francisco to hear Xiaomi CEO Lin Bin and VP Hugo Barra give their pitch to Silicon Valley. We’ve been told we shouldn’t expect an announcement of the company bringing its products to the US, so the impression is that this is about explaining what Xiaomi…

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Windows 10 Technical Preview For Phones Now Available

By Darrell Etherington Microsoft has decided to make my job just a bit harder by naming all variants of Windows 10 clumsily, but if you have a phone that runs Windows Phone 8.1 and you want to try out the next generation, ‘Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones” is now available to download for Windows…

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Hands-on review: Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi

Hands-on review: Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi

By Kevin Lee The Surface Pro 3 set the standard for what a well-built Windows 8.1 convertible device can be. We’ve seen a few devices, such as HP Envy x2, try and fail to mimic the same winning formula. Now, Asus has introduced something a little different with the Transformer Book T300 Chi. What’s more,…

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Hands-on review: Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi

Hands-on review: Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi

By Kevin Lee The Surface Pro 3 set the standard for what a well-built Windows 8.1 convertible device can be. We’ve seen a few devices, such as HP Envy x2, try and fail to mimic the same winning formula. Now, Asus has introduced something a little different with the Transformer Book T300 Chi. What’s more,…

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Watch The New Phorm iPad Mini Case Generate Physical Keys Out Of Thin Air

Watch The New Phorm iPad Mini Case Generate Physical Keys Out Of Thin Air

By Darrell Etherington Apple’s touch-based devices have changed the way we interact with computers entirely, but that hasn’t stopped users from occasionally thinking wistfully of the days when physical keyboards ruled the roost. Tactus has taken that desire to heart, and the startup’s first consumer product, the Phorm, is about to bring a tactile experience…

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The end of an era as Chinese company mulls plans for massive AMD investment

The end of an era as Chinese company mulls plans for massive AMD investment

By Desire Athow It looks more and more likely that Intel’s once-formidable archrival, AMD, could receive some significant capital from a little known Chinese conglomerate called Loongson Technology. VRWorld reports that key AMD staff have visited China over the last few weeks and that Loongson will use some of its 120 billion Yuan (about £12.6…

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The end of an era as Chinese company mulls plans for massive AMD investment

The end of an era as Chinese company mulls plans for massive AMD investment

By Desire Athow It looks more and more likely that Intel’s once-formidable archrival, AMD, could receive some significant capital from a little known Chinese conglomerate called Loongson Technology. VRWorld reports that key AMD staff have visited China over the last few weeks and that Loongson will use some of its 120 billion Yuan (about £12.6…

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TC Makers: Inside The IT Room Of A High-Tech Cruise Ship

TC Makers: Inside The IT Room Of A High-Tech Cruise Ship

By John Biggs In order to prevent electrical fires, cables on a ship can’t be spliced. This means that a cable that starts at one end of the massive Quantum Of The Seas, Royal Caribbean’s latest pleasure ship, have to be over 1,139 feet long to reach the other end. That’s a lot of cable…

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Hands-on review: Dell Chromebook 11 (2015) review

Hands-on review: Dell Chromebook 11 (2015) review

By Chuong Nguyen With this year’s Chromebook 11, Dell is building on the success of last year’s model, which bears the same name, by continuing to target the educational market. Although both generations of Chromebook share the same name, Dell has completely redesigned this year’s model to be more durable for the classroom. Starting at…

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